The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Momordica (To the species described on pp)

To the species described on pp. 376-7, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

M. involucrata (involucred). fl., males pale yellowish, with three green spots on the short tube, solitary in the upper axils; females few, with revolute lobes. July. fr. scarlet, fleshy, 2in. long. l. 1 1/2in. to 2in. in diameter, five-lobed, the lobes toothed; petioles slender, 1/4in. to 1in. long. Natal. (B. M. 6932; Ref. B. iv. 223.)

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